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Create a `search-engines` category to display search engines only #1947

Open ruihildt opened 1 year ago

ruihildt commented 1 year ago

Describe the problem and steps to reproduce it:

I want to have only search extensions displayed when in Firefox I go to about:preferences#search and click on "Find more search engines".

What happened?

When I click on "Find more search engines" which points to https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/extensions/category/search-tools/, the list of extension displayed is not strictly search engines.

It is apparently "search-tools" which is a very wide category that encompasses more than "search tools".

See screenshot below of the first page (and there are 171 pages listed in total).

What did you expect to happen?

After clicking on ""Find more search engines", I expected to get a list of extensions that are adding search engines to Firefox. Not extensions that do any type of search or extensions that have nothing to do with search.

This is because if I click on "Find more search engines" in the Firefox UI presenting the list of installed search engine in Firefox, I expect to have presented to me a list of search engines I can add to that list.

From that point of view, the experience is totally broken.

Anything else we should know?

So an idea would be to redefine the "seach-tools" category, but I guess it would not strictly be search engines, but potentially could include any search tool, like a search on current page extension.

This is why I suggest the creation of a "search engines" category that will filter based on the manifest only extensions adding search engines.

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KevinMind commented 4 months ago

Old Jira Ticket: https://mozilla-hub.atlassian.net/browse/ADDSRV-462

anewuser commented 3 months ago

I know your resources are limited, but could you start reviewing all simple search add-ons that don't include any JS? Users are afraid of installing new unverified extensions, and verifying these search add-ons is as simple as checking if the URL is legit and works.

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